by The Emmerich Group | Sep 24, 2025 | Bank Acquisitions, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing
Most Bank Mergers Fail. Here’s What the Top 1% Do Differently. Your plan won’t save you.
Not in a merger. Not in disruption. Not when the pressure’s on.
Because plans don’t execute themselves—people do. And if your culture can’t carry the weight, the whole thing...
by The Emmerich Group | Sep 11, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing
Most banks lie to themselves about culture. They treat it like window dressing—something HR manages, or worse, a “culture committee” babysits with doughnuts and posters. And then they wonder why execution crumbles, margins shrink, and their best talent bolts for...
by The Emmerich Group | Sep 10, 2025 | Accountability, Effective Leadership, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Strategic Planning
There’s a lie baked into most banks’ strategic plans—and it’s costing them growth, margin, and momentum. In this episode, Roxanne Emmerich dismantles the illusion that “more projects = more performance” and reveals the operating-system-level thinking used by the top...
by The Emmerich Group | Sep 4, 2025 | Accountability, Effective Leadership, High Performance, Profitability and Growth
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most bank boards are strategic liabilities. Long meetings. Thick packets. Zero growth traction. This week’s episode pulls back the curtain on why most banks fail before the planning even starts—and how top-performing banks use their...
by The Emmerich Group | Aug 28, 2025 | Accountability, Effective Leadership, High Performance, Profitability and Growth
Your Board Might Be the Silent Killer of Performance Your board isn’t broken.They’re just working with a blindfold on—and no one’s bothered to tear it off. They get the numbers, the decks, the updates.But not the strategy.Not the cultural signals.Not the execution...
by The Emmerich Group | Aug 21, 2025 | Accountability, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Strategic Planning
Burn the To-Do List. Your Strategic Plan Is a Lie. Let’s stop pretending. Most bank “strategic plans” are elaborate theater—packed with buzzwords, layered in charts, but built on a foundation of… nothing. This week, Roxanne Emmerich calls out the sham…...
